Lit Society: Books and Drama
LIT Society is the hilarious weekly book podcast that’s making a global community of listeners fall in love again with reading. Thursdays, join life-long friends Kari and Alexis as they use books to explore pop culture and personal peculiarities. From Tolstoy to Toni Morrison, this is the virtual book club for you!
Episodes
![ReLIT: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6179817/LIT_SOCIETY_LAYERED_LOGO_Behind_Square_FINAL_300x300.jpg)
Thursday May 30, 2024
ReLIT: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Thursday May 30, 2024
Thursday May 30, 2024
We return next week with a new episode, but we'd never leave you without a dope book to discuss. So, here's another favorite episode from our past! Hyde yo' kids! Hyde yo' wife! A young doctor allows his obsession with the duality of human nature to lead him down a path littered with lies, murder, and destruction. His name is Doctor Henry Jekyll; the book is The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You're listening to Lit Society. LET'S GET LIT!!! PS: This is our very first episode, released initially to a small group of test listeners in 2019. We like to think the quality of our show has improved since then, but this is still one of our favorite episodes! Enjoy! Find Alexis and Kari online: Instagram — www.instagram.com/litsocietypod/; Twitter — twitter.com/litsocietypod; Facebook — www.facebook.com/LitSocietyPod/; and our website www.LitSocietyPod.com. Get in on the conversation by using #booksanddrama.
![ReLIT: Educated by Tara Westover](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6179817/LIT_SOCIETY_LAYERED_LOGO_Behind_Square_FINAL_300x300.jpg)
Thursday May 23, 2024
ReLIT: Educated by Tara Westover
Thursday May 23, 2024
Thursday May 23, 2024
Have you ever had to cut someone out of your life? No phone calls, texts, and your friends know not to invite both of you to the same event? This week, our theme is inspired by Educated, a memoir by Tara Westover.
Tara didn’t have a birth certificate until she was nine years old and she didn’t see her first classroom until the age of 17. It’s like The Village by M. Night Shyamalan, but interesting. . . Eventually, she’s forced to choose between a life without her family or most certain death by their hands. It got real, real quick. Travel with us from the peaks of Idaho to the halls of Cambridge in Educated.
Welcome to Lit Society.
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![King Lear by William Shakespeare](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6179817/LIT_SOCIETY_LAYERED_LOGO_Behind_Square_FINAL_300x300.jpg)
Thursday May 16, 2024
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
A man's enemies will be persons of his own household. In one of the most tragic classics, we are forced to stare unflinchingly into a household descending into madness and chaos.
The play: King Lear
The playwright: William Shakespeare
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![The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6179817/LIT_SOCIETY_LAYERED_LOGO_Behind_Square_FINAL_300x300.jpg)
Thursday May 09, 2024
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Thursday May 09, 2024
Thursday May 09, 2024
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.." The most kafkaesque book we've ever read is about isolation, capitalism, and the meaning of family - we think.
The book: The Metamorphosis
The author: Franz Kafka
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![A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6179817/LIT_SOCIETY_LAYERED_LOGO_Behind_Square_FINAL_300x300.jpg)
Thursday May 02, 2024
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Thursday May 02, 2024
Thursday May 02, 2024
One family's matriarch does all she can to honor her late husband's memory, save her son from despair, and support the dreams of her daughter — Is there hope for them, a family who the world is against, a family who already feels death inside the walls of their dwelling?
The play: A Raisin in the Sun
The playwright: Lorraine Hansberry
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Sources for theme discussion: The Lasting Effects of Covenants and Red-Lining
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1049052531/racial-covenants-housing-discrimination
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![No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6179817/LIT_SOCIETY_LAYERED_LOGO_Behind_Square_FINAL_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
What would you give for 2.4M dollars? Would you give up everything, and if so, in what order would you choose to abandon your life and everyone in it? One man must quickly decide his answer. What he chooses and what happens next is a story that uncovers the not-so-secret depravity of an entire country.
The book: No Country for Old Men
The author: Cormac McCarthy
LET'S GET LIT!!!
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![ReLIT: Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6179817/LIT_SOCIETY_LAYERED_LOGO_Behind_Square_FINAL_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
ReLIT: Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
This episode was first published on April 14, 2022, and it's still one of our favorites. We return next week with a new episode covering No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. Enjoy!
America's Most Wanted was a television show launched by a man who knew what it meant to lose a child forever, in the blink of an eye, to the hands of a monster. He took his pain and helped others find their missing children before it was too late. Today, we discuss how that man, Jon Walsh, lost his son and what we all can do to be a little safer in these streets. Then, on to our book...
On the tenth anniversary of her youngest daughter's disappearance, one woman must choose to let go of her pain and reopen herself to life and love. After meeting a charming writer, who reminds her of her ex-husband, she begins a path that takes her somewhere she never imagined — to the truth about her daughter's disappearance a decade earlier.
The woman's name? Laurel Mack.
The book? Then She Was Gone: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
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![Small Things like These by Claire Keegan](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6179817/LIT_SOCIETY_LAYERED_LOGO_Behind_Square_FINAL_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Small Things like These by Claire Keegan
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Not all heroes wear capes or have long epic trilogies written about them. Some live quiet lives, doing what they can to protect the most vulnerable. In a small Irish town, one man must choose if he'll become a hero or remain a silent enabler of a horrific system perpetrated by the church of his community.
The book: Small Things Like These
The author: Claire Keegan
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![The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6179817/LIT_SOCIETY_LAYERED_LOGO_Behind_Square_FINAL_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
An enslaved woman on a cotton plantation is considered an outcast by her fellow Africans, and as she comes into womanhood, her problems increase. What will she decide when a new enslaved man, Caesar, invites her to escape?
The book: The Underground Railroad
The author: Colson Whitehead
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![ReLIT: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6179817/LIT_SOCIETY_LAYERED_LOGO_Behind_Square_FINAL_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
ReLIT: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Alexis and Kari are on a well-deserved break this week, so we'd like to share one of their favorite past episodes with you, The LITeratti.
This week's theme, How to Survive a Crisis, is inspired by an amazing non-fic graphic novel, now turned into a film!
One girl, the beloved only child of progressive parents, is sent to school in Austria. This is the story of her childhood, growing up in a time of war and revolution. Her parents hope that she'll escape what they see as Iran's oppressive regime. Together, she and her country must decide who they're supposed to be and who they actually are.
The girl's name — Marjane Satrapi.
The book — Persepolis.
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